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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14
A Death at Sea.

''Do invalids usually dread making sea
voyage, doctor2'
''They have no fear of the voyage, but
the dread which surrounds the thought of
possible death at sea completely un-
nerves them. Suggest trip abroad and
they will gladly attempt it, for they have
the satisfaction of knowing that in case
they die the remains will be returned to
their friends for decent burial A burial
at sea, however, haunts them from the
time a voyage is suggested until it is over.
Now that the matter Of speed and comfort
is the question of the hour with steamship
companies, they should give some thought
to the subject of burials at sea. 1t is an
important question. Originating when
the only means of transatlantic travel
were sailing vessels, there is no doubt but
that it was necessary to consign corpse
to the deep, but in these days of rapid
transit and floating palaces it would be an
easy matter to preserve body for several
days. In the olden time lack of facilities
for properly caring for and preserving q
body, coupled with the superstitious dread
of the sailors, rendered it necessary to
heave it over the rail, but now these rea-
sons do not exist. Every steamer should
have surgeon capable of embalming
corpse and a refrigerating compartment to
preserve q body for an entire trip. The
terrible dread of being buried at sea has
deferred many from seeking relief in q
warmer cline than this, and they have re-
NAMED here and died rather than risk
such an end What we need are facilities
and apparatus which will tend to dispel
this dread, and which will tend to add to
the peace of mind of persons taking a sea
voyage in the hope of restoring health. -
New York Mail and Express
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14
Locusts Seeking the Light.

Professor J. S. Newberry gives a most
marked illustration Of what appears to be
development of instinct approaching rea-
son in one of the low forms of life. The
grub of the 17-year locust buries itself
deep in the ground, and only energies aft
er its period Of seventeen years is ended.
AT Railway, \. j., a house has been
erected above a spot where some Of these
grubs had buried themselves. At the ex-
piration of their period the grubs started
on their way to the surface, but emerged
into the cellar, where they We're yet in the
dark. in order to reach the light they
began building small structures, and
when first noticed the floor of the cellar
was found covered with small cones,
some of them more than six inches high,
which these cicadas had built in their ex-
ertions TO traverse the dark cavity to the
light above ground. Budget.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14
Women of the Stare.

4 woman while travelling must either
be sufficient company TO herself or find
such enjoyment as she can in the company
of others, who may or may not be congen-
ial 1t frequently happens, after a few
weeks, that mutually interesting subjects
are exhausted, and, perhaps, nothing but
backbiting and gossip remain as ever
fruitful topics. Then IL is that the world
appears no larger than cheese box, and
the thoughts and opinions OF the members
OF the company seem Ike the final judg-
ment Then is it that jealousy eats into
the soul, and life is narrower than q
thread. Jealousy and backbiting VIII be
conceded 10 belong not alone to the stage;
but as the stage does share in them TO
some degree, it might be well to include
them among the disadvantages. For all
this there is but one cure-the right EN-
ployInent Of the leisure time; in sight see
ing, perhaps, for there is always some
thing 10 be seen and learned during q
ramole, il the tired traveller can be in
duced TO take one.-Georgia Cayyan In
BROOKLYN Magazine
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14
The Trade With Greenland.

But the days Of the noble old clippers
are gone, and went to see this veteran OF
the sea about the ships that trade with
Greenland. He and a business associate
own. seven vessels engaged in this strange
trade. No other American commercial
vessels go to the far off land of Kane, Sir
John Franklin and so many other gallant
men who have braved the rigors of its
highest ATTITUDES. The vessels go out in
ballast, for although Greenland imports
wheat, brandy, coffee, sugar, tobacco and
firewood, it is not from this country.
They bring back metal termed cryolite,
which they obtain at port called Ivigtut,
on the southwest coast of Greenland.
1t is a bleak country, even in the short
summer, during two months of which, in
June and July, the sun is always above
the horizon. Moses, stunted shrubs,
dwarfish trees and huckleberry bushes are
about the only vegetation, and the bare
mountains, in the grip of great glaciers,
and the generally dead and desolate as
pect of the country make it appear as
strange and unreal as that gray corpse of
world, the moon. Cryolite looks like ice,
and hence the name signifies ice stone 1t
is all taken to Philadelphia, and is used in
manufacturing soda, alum, I've, porcelain
piano keys, door knobs, clock dials and
other articles. The seven banks in the
trade each carry about 800 tons of this
strange mineral, and make fourteen voy-
ages in year. Last year they brought
{, 400 tons to this country Oscar Will
lOughby Riggs.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14
Afraid of Policemen ell,

Parents make great mistake in teach
ing their children to be afraid of police
men. have often heard them threaten
ing as punishment to send for the brass
buttoned officials to come and take them
to prison. The consequence is that the
little ones learn to regard a cop with ter
TOR whenever they see one. You would
be surprised to know how generally this
sentiment is implanted in the minds of
children under or 10 years of age, and
what hinderance it causes the department
in aiding them to find their homes when
they happen to get lost Policemen, as a
rule, are fond Of children, and think that
for the latters' safety they should be
taught to look on every one of us as their
friend, to whom they would first think of
appealing whenever they might be in
trouble.-Police Sergeant in Globe-Demo-
Graf
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14
A German Brigadier's Idea.

Our German troops did yeoman's ser
vice during the war, but it was hard for
some OF them to adopt American ideas,
especially in military matters, and they
occasionally had strange views of the war
and the best means of bringing it to an
end. At the battle of Charlottesville the
Eleventh corps, largely composed Of Ger
mans, was broken by Jackson, and re-
treated in considerable disorder, to put it
very mildly. After the retrograde move
ment that followed that battle officers of
various corps were in the habit of discuss
ing the cause of the giving away of the
Eleventh and of the failure of the opera
tions. was present when a number Of
officers, high in rank, were talking about
the matter, some assigning one reason and
some another. At length German briga-
der arose, and with an air which implied
that no contradiction was possible, said:
II will tell you what de trouble is, gentle
men; dere is too much of de American ele-
ment in dis army This oracular an
nouncenent set the company in roar,
but is no unfair example OF the feeling
which was entertained by too many of our
foreign officers.-Col r. L. Converse in
Globe Democrat
SOiiic years Sllte d nONtl ledllre Wds,
introduced in municipal taxation in Bel
GUM by allowing rebate to all married
men, with an allowance also for each child
of the family, the chief burden thus fall
ing on the bachelors. In France it is now
proposed to tax bachelors as they were
taxed in the days Of the first republic,
and there is no doubt but that the meas
ure would be carried by an overwhelming
majority if the women had voice in the
matter. 1t is fact, by the way, that re-
publics, for some reason or another, have
been very severe in their laws against
bachelors. Plato the Wise condemned
them to fine, and in Sparta they were
driven at stated times to the Temple of
Hercules by the women, who, having I'M
dressed the poor fellows, would drill and
castigate them.
The old Romans, too, were severe with
their bachelors, who were made to pay
heavy fines, and worse than that, for after
the siege of Veil it is told how Camillus
compelled them to marry the widows of
the soldiers who had fallen in the war.
In the time OF Augustus, also, all other
things being equal, the married were pre-
ferred TO single men for public Offices.
Then the Roman who had three children
was exempted from personal taxes, and
the bachelors not only had to pay for them,
but were prevented from inheriting the
property OF any one not a Roman citizen
SO that the present revival OF laws against
bachelors in France is no novelty after all.
San Francisco Chronicle.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14
Who Wrote the "Bonny Blue Flag"

Referring to the statement contained in
letter published in The Avalanche some
weeks ago, TO the effect that Judge Wiley
p Harris, of this city, first suggested the
ideas to Harry McCarty, the author of
the 'fBonny Blue Flag" upon which that
famous song was originated, set to music
and taken up and sung from one end of
Dixie land to the other That eminent
jurist, who bears the .unquestioned repu-
tation of being the greatest of Mississippi's
lawyers, says that while he has no definite
recollection Of the matter, ''that it is quite
probable that he did say something to Nc
Carly about it," but he has a more def
mite recollection of the solemnity of the
occasion on the day Mississippi seeded.
Col Power, now proprietor of The Clarion,
says that he himself set up the "Bonny
Blue Flag with his own hands; that
Harry McCarty brought it to him and
told him that Judge Harris had made the
suggestion to him upon which he had
written the song. Judge Harris makes
no claim, he says, to the literary merit of
McCarty's lines.-Cor. Memphis Ava
Ianche
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14
The Sick in Chinatown.

Perhaps the most forbidding feature of
Chinese life is the neglect of the sick and
the suffering. Ill fares the coolie that
falls sick in Chinatown. He may be pro-
vided with the necessaries of life by his
society, but of medical attendance or
proper care he Will get none. Nearly every
week the police discover some wretched
unfortunate that has been left 10 die in an
underground den by unnatural relatives
or friends. Slow starvation in noisome
cellar, in the horror of thick darkness.
with vermin swarming over the helpless
sufferer-such is the fate that has befallen
many poor creature in Chinatown
George H. Fitch in the Cosmopolitan.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14
The "Endolithic Process"

In The American Art, there is an in
teresting account Of the practice of a new
art in this country, but like most of the
arts, it is nothing more than the revival
Of an art profusely practiced by the
Greeks, rs the remains of their temples
testify. This art consists in the ability to
apply colors OF certain manufacture to
stone, and Is called the ''endolithic pro-
cess. To apply color successfully TO
stone 1t must be made to sink below the
surface without spreading. The means of
accomplishing this has been found and. as
a result, interiors Of marble can be tinted
in myriads of colors if desired 4 general
application of the art 70 the funereal mar
BILE chimney pieces OF New York would
make Us more cheerful race Of beings
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14
A CHAMBER SCENE.

Tread softly thro' these amorous rooms,
For every bough is hung with Life,
And kisses in harmonious strIie,
Unloose their sharp and winged perfumes!
From Afric and the Persian looms,
The carpets silzen leaves have sprung;
And heaven, in its blue bounty, flung
These starry flowers and azure blooms.
Tread softly by creature feir
The deity of love reposes;
His red lips open, like the roses
Which round his hyacinthine hair
Hang in crimson coronals;
And passion fills the arched halls;
And beauty floats upon the air.
Tread softly, like the foot
OF winter shod with feecy snow,
Who cometh white, and cold, and mute,
Lest he should wake the spring below,
OH look, for here lie love and youth,
Fair spirits of the heart and mind;
Alas that one should stray from truth,
And one be ever, ever blind
-Byran W. Proctor.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14

The Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska Railway
St. Joseph & Iowa Railroad Co., Lessee), Is
the best equipped line west of the Missouri
river. Our equipment was built expressly
for this line by the Pullman Palace Car Com
pany, which is guarantee to the travelling
public that it is strictly first-class. You will
find all of our coaches elegantly upholstered
and very comfortable in every particular
II you are going to any part Of Kansas or
Nebraska, or to any point east, remember
you will never regret having started right,
by taking the Chicago, Kansas 81 Nebraska
Railway. Brock Island Route. For fur
dher particulars, address Jno. Sebastian, G..
7. & P. A, Topeka, Kan. 60-tf.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14
Legal Companies VS.. Individual Lawyers

=
One of the advantages of legal education
is said to be that it keeps man from
going to law, and in this sense the newly
fledged attorneys and counsellors of our bar
will, if they do not practice their profess
sion, exercise a salutary effect upon them
selves. l am told by a prominent lawyer
that the chances of a young man for prac-
tice in our great cities have been seriously
diminished by the business like methods
which have been introduced into the pro-
fession. The examination of titles, for
instance, is now to e considerable extent
performed by companies, and collecting
agencies do much of the work which used
to give support to the mercantile lawyers.
But Webster's saying, that there is room
enough at the top, is as true of the profess
sion of the law as it was in his day.-Bos-
ton Post
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14
DElUDEO.

Happy ia he who hears, with brow elate,
Above the tumult of TIL unheeding tliropg,
The plaudits of the Future, clear and strong,
Down the long centuries reverberate.
Though aforementioned be his common fate;
Content to leave heritage of song
To after ages who can do NO wrong;
Content, though never gained, Fame's crown to
wait
Dupe of his dreams, what matter if not his,
Dim in the crimson gold and purple gloom
Of some cathedral vast, that honored tomb
Whose stones the pilgrim nations kneeling kiss?
SAUNDERS be not less sound though overheard
On forgotten mound the grasses spread.
-Cornhiil Magazine.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14
Notice to Contractors.

Plans and specifications for the new Fifth
Avenue Opera House. Arkansas City, Kan,
COOKIES, entirely of stone, to be located on
the southwest corner of Fifth avenue and
Fifth street are now ready for examination
at the Office of Pollock & Sherburne on
East Fifth avenue.
Bids will be received at above office till 6
O'Clock p. m. Tuesday, September Goth, and
contract let the following Thursday C22nd).
Any communications may be addressed to
Frank J. Hess, Secy. The Fifth Avenue
Opera House Company. d-SS-20t.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14
Low Rates to the st. Louis Exposition.

The Missouri Pacific, "Fort Scott Route, ~
commencing September eth and continuing
thereafter at regular intervals until October
Goth, will sell tickets to ST. Louis and return
at one and onethird fare, good going one
route and return another. This is the only
direct line TO st. Louis, being forty-eight
miles the shortest, and the only line running
through reclining chair cars free without
change; also palace Pullmans on morning
and evening trains.
Patrons Of this line enjoy all the conven-
fences and comforts that modern railway
improvements provide, and are assured care
full attention and courteous treatment
dSS-tf
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14

Neither whiskey ginger, blackberry brandy
or anything else begins to equal Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhhoea Remedy
for bowel complaint 1t is the only medicine
that always cures bloody fiux, cholera NOR
bus, dysentery and diarrhoea, and it never
fails 1t costs % cents and is worth % dollars
when needed. Mr.. a. Finley, Of cambridge,
Putnam county Ind, writes that Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and DiarrhOea Remedy
cured him of severe attack of diarrhoea, the
first dose quoted and eased the pain and the
second dose cured him completely; he also
says that he cured bad case of bloody fux
with the same bottle. Sold by Ed Aldrich
dTqh
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14
Opening OF Wichita University.

The fall term of the Wichita University
will open October 4th, and close Dec. 22Dd,
1857.
Students will be admitted in the prepare
tory, literary, classical, music and art de-
paTtments.
Tuition: Preparatory English course for
fall term of II weeks 500. Collegiate
course English and classical, vocal music
and German 50 co.
For further information apply to Rev. J.
W. Love, 406 S. Market, Wichita, Kan,
chairman of com. Of arrap gements. d9f-10
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14

'Come, let us live with the children
Froebel
The kindergarten on Second street be-
tween Lawrence and Topeka, will open on
Monday, Sept g. Session from to IL a. m.
Tuition per month So. 10. d90-l2t.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14

EW. o. Riddell & Co. over Kansas National
bank, are headquarters for Paramount, Getto
and Logan additions. Parlor Car line in 90
days. Finest residence property in the CITY
'6Q-tf
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14
Notice.

All Drivers have positive orders to prevent
passengers from getting on and off front
platform of cars, or stand on the same.
Passengers must keep off of the front plat
fern WICHITA STREET R'Y Co.
SO
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14

The Temporary office Of the Burton Stock
Car Co. is locaqed at 343 North Topeka ave.
- E. F. PERKINS,
d77-1m. Vice Pres. and Genl. Manager.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14

Forty nine persons out Of every fifty, on
an average, need an occasional physic to
keep in peri ct health. Try St Patrick's
Pills as pleasant and thorough cathartic
and liver pill; they are perfection Sold by
Ed Aldrich and j. P. Allen. 79-tf
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14
Hard Coal,

am now ready to deliver hard coal in any
quantity or to take orders for September de-
livery. l.. G. JACKSON,
S9-tf I12 S. 4th Ave.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14

Passengers for Wellsford, for Coldwater
and Ashland be sure and take Lakes straight
line and save twenty -four hours time; arrive
at Coldwater at $50 o. m. 14-tf
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14

By the carload, barrel, or bushel A large
quantity on hand. l.. C. JACKSON,
soft 112 S. 4th Ave.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14

L. C. jackson, liz s. Atm ave-, agent for
Canon City and Usage City shaft coal, the
best Goals in the market. S9-n
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14
Lime,

Cheap money for long or short time at S..
L. Davidson Mortgage Companys office.
S9-tf
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14
Pocket Real Estate.

The Eagle pocket real estate book has be.
come q universal favorite among dealers
generally in the west. 25tft
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14

Hyde & Humble will close their store at z
O'Clock p. m, except Saturday, during the
months of July and August. Att
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14
gaf1n T. eagle

Ladies' fine hand turned button shoes re-
duced from $500 to $500 at the Wichita
Shoe Parlor, corner Main and First Att
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14
Everybody Takes Ii.

Firebsugh is making loans on four to six
months time. Office with Sluss & Stanly.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-14

Cobs for sale at Zephyr mills. Telephone
1859. S4-2O+
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-12-21
The Ahefflrla handicap.

The following are the starts for the
Sh-ffield Handicap, l35 yards, to be
run at Washington Gardens, Christ
mas day: j. Thompson, Philadel-
phia, "a yards start--scratch; r.
MrKernan, Los Angeles. 25 yards
start; w. E. Godfrey, Los Angeles,
26 yards start; K. +. Wilkinson, Los
Ang les, 27 yards start; q. r.
.sphriam, San Francisco, 20 yards
start; j. G. Moffitt. New York, 20
wards start; j. Denis, Chicago, ~
Yards start; J. Bevan, San Fran
cisco. so yards start; @. IL. Walls,
Los Angeles, 81 yards start; ]. Viii
son, Pasadena, SO yards start; Il.
McPhetridge. Chicago, 81 yards start !;
I. Alfred, San Diego, 50 yards start /;
J. Daw, San Franci.co, 35 yards start /;
u. Olpherts, Los Angeles, 80 yards
start; j. Nayton, Los Angeles, 36
wards start; J. Hastings, Los Angeles,
36 yards start; j. Brown. London,
England. 81 yards start; ID. Bowman,
Dundee, Sc tland, 81 yards start; F.
Wylie, Liverpool, England, 81 yards
start; B. + Butterield, Los Angeles,
81 wards start.
The drawing for positions will tax.
place Friday evening next, at
Schwart's Turf and Grain Exchange.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-12-21
I'm the Orient with Wud.Ei- Ward

DR.. Wad-E Ward, the son of former
rabid of Jerusalem, Palestine who has con
Quoted several noted exploring expeditions
in his Country, aud acted as guile aud inter
prefer for General g ant and party, receutl
close avery pleasing cOu -se of lectures in
the University Of Southern California, and
Will give three lectures, December 26th, 9th
and 18th in the German Cnurcu OF FurI
street. near Seventh. ntw occupied by the
simpson NJ. Z. Tabernacle 60. iety. for tue
benefit of the organ fund. Subjects. re-
spectively: 'COmicalities and realities o
Eastern life" a Donkey ride from Dan "a,
Beersheba," and "One hundred minutes
with the natives of Jerusalem" Mrs Wad-
El-Wa d wi assist her husband ny singne
In various liugua1es in illustration of the
music of the Qriet Wad-Ei- Ward is
highly edncaIed,' ing graduate OF
Kings G, llege, London. aud an al
luuus OF Harv, I'd. He speaAs thirteen
languages huently and has travelled In
every country iu tie world. As a speaker
on Palestine he has no equal He Ia fluent
quick witted, and has wonderful descrip
tive powers In Boston. Ph lad.lphia and
Oiher Eastern cities he has been greeted b,
large and enthusiastic audiences. Boih
VS. and Gentiles, infidels and skeptics
alike will find 1t worth while to hear him.
for, aside from any religious or theulogicai
consideration. these lectures contribute a
store Of information not 4 .und in any no X
on the subjects. Dr. and MIS- Wad-Ei-Wsrd
viii be attired In native costume during
the course, and on he last eyeaing wv .nIy
persons OF this community will dress in
costume and give tahleaux of the subiects
spoken Of in the lectures.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-12-21
Person nj Mention.

g. J. Griffith and wife have gone to
Gan Francisco.
Charles Kohler, Jr., left yesterday
evening for San Francisco.
isMr. NAT +. Wiltshire arrived here
yesterday morning from Cincinatti.
Rev. J.. C. Gowan and family o.
Cqnpfcticut are visiting Los Angeles.
Col. T. Mervin Donahue left for his
home i'm San Francisco last evening,
after a very short visit here.
RIB. Taylor OF South Riverside was
in the city yesterday. He reports his
town growing at healthy rate.
IMr. Morrill,, General Freight Agent
fofsthe Boston and Providence Rail
road, left Yesterday for San Francisco.
!Mr..T p. Collins, late of Baltimore.
has come 70 resi- lie in this city, and
has accepted a position with Wells,
FargS & Co.. 3 Express COMPANY.